National Affairs: Brooklyn Boy

Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field.

Last week in Honolulu, a court martial sentenced Ben Fleigelmann to five years of hard labor at Governors Island, N. Y. From that fortified dot in New York Harbor, Convict Fleigelmann will be able to see Brooklyn with ease.